Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook

by David Cooper

This in-depth musicological and critical study examines how Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo plays a crucial role in the articulation and development of the film's narrative and how it affects readings of the film. Herrmann's collaboration with Hitchcock spanned eleven years and nine films, and Herrmann's film score for Vertigo is widely regarded as being one of his finest. Cooper considers the development of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031331490X
• ISBN13: 9780313314902
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"